Anyone interested should read Eugene Sledge’s book “With The Old Breed.” To say the battle was hell severely underrates it. IMO.
He was prominently featured in the series “The Pacific”. Made the European Theater look like a walk in the park, by comparison.
I knew several men who were in Europe, it was anything but a walk in the park. The hell the guys in the Pacific went through was a scaled up bit of hell in comparison. I had the privilege to know a man who crossed Omaha beach and a man who survived Iwo Jima. Everyone I knew had a story and none would expand much past “I was there”. Thank God they were. Regards